Monday, March 03, 2014

Conservative news watchers want more answers on why an Iranian grad student at Georgia Tech nearly burned himself to death making homemade bombs inside his apartment.
The incident happened in early February, but gained new steam over the weekend after Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit and Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller posted items on the explosion, which sent Saamer Akhshabi to the hospital with third-degree burns over 90 percent of his body.

Further information from the article at "The College Fix":

According to First Coast News, “Atlanta police (say) … lighter fluid
and a charred pillow and mattress were found inside the apartment, along
with the Molotov cocktail and several plastic bottles filled with
gasoline and kerosene.

“Akhshabi was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital,” the report
states. “His biography on Georgia Tech’s website says he’s a PhD student
in the school’s College of Computing and attended the University of
Tehran in his native Iran before coming to Georgia.”

Akhshabi must have attended the same bomb-making school, in Iraq, where the instructor blew up his entire class on February 10, 2014. (Reported at "Jihad Watch"; which article itself is worth a read.)